Priyanka Gandhi's Strategy For Uttar Pradesh - And The High Stakes For Her
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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has pledged 40% of Congress party's candidates for the 403-seat Uttar Pradesh assembly will be women.
An actress jailed for protesting Prime Minister Narendra Modi's controversial citizenship law, the mother of a rape survivor, and a beauty pageant winner. These are the women leading once-dominant Congress party as it seeks to reinvent itself in a hotly contested state election. उत्तर प्रदेश की विभिन्न सीटों से लड़ रहीं महिला कांग्रेस पदाधिकारियों को बधाई !विजयी भव:#आ_रही_है_कांग्रेस#लड़की_हूँ_लड़_सकती_हूँ@priyankagandhi@dnettapic.twitter.com/KVV3I09Hlk
The slew of female candidates in Uttar Pradesh is part of a new campaign led by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. With a catchy slogan "I'm a girl and I can fight", the campaign underscores the growing importance of women voters in the world's largest democracy.
Ms Vadra has pledged 40% of Congress party's candidates for the 403-seat state assembly will be women. She has met that promise in the first list of candidates her party announced for the state polls that will be carried out in seven phases starting from Feb. 10. The election results will be released March 10.
"If you have suffered in the past, you have to fight and grab power to fight for your rights," Ms Vadra said in a video posted on Twitter last week. Congress party's list of candidates is a new kind of politics, she added.
